Monthly Archives: April 2017

If we look at total production volume, we see that corn is the world’s most important grain. In 2014, the United States was the largest corn producer in the world with a production volume of approximately 351 million metric tons (this amounted to a third of the global corn production). According to a report by the US Department of Agriculture, the country exported over 46 million metric tons of corn in 2015. In comparison, the second-largest exporter (Brazil) produced only 22 metric tons of corn exports.

The U.S. Refugee Processing Center publishes a lot of data about resettlements related to the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program. It collects data from the Refugee Processing Center, which is operated by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration. This makes it the most reliable source of information on refugees coming from all over the world to the U.S.

This is the final post of our series on the changes in business profiles of the four United States regions. This time we use the County Business Patterns data to see which industry sectors in the Northeast have shown the largest changes in the employment numbers.

Despite the Northeastern states having the smallest total population of all four regions, it is very densely populated. In fact, seven states with the highest population density are located in the region.

It may not be the largest sector by number of establishments or workforce size, but you cannot underestimate the importance of the Agriculture industry. The North American Industry Classification System names it “Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting.”

The number of international crowdfunding platforms is increasing every year. Crowdfunding is defined as a collective effort by a large number of individuals who network and pool small amounts of capital to finance a new or pre-existing business venture. Each project has a set amount of money to raise and a fixed timeframe; each day is counted down and the money raised is tallied up for visitors to follow the project’s success. Some sources suggest that current financial climate has given a trigger to the culture of crowdfunding.

The United States houses the leading crowdfunding market with 191 crowdfunding platforms in the country, according to information published at Statista.com in 2012. In comparison, the second-largest market in the world, the United Kingdom, had 44 crowdfunding platforms in the same year.

As we saw in our post about the fastest-growing industries, one sector performed particularly poorly since 2000. This is the construction industry, which includes businesses in new housing construction itself, as well as electrical, heating and framing contractors and many other specialty trade contractors.

As we saw in our post about high-paid finance jobs some time ago, there are some counties where the average payroll is significantly higher. The highest numbers are registered in the large cities, but there has been a significant increase is counties that neighbor them (such as Suffolk and Westchester).

If we are to find a relationship between the payroll and employment numbers, it would be logical to assume that the payroll is higher in counties where more people are employed. Actually, it is likely that the relationship is reciprocal — more people are willing to get a job in a city where paychecks are larger.

Today we present another post in our series exploring the business profiles of the United States regions. In this post, we’ll take a look at the sector-by-sector changes in employment in the South using the United States Census Bureau County Business Patterns data.